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"Whom the gods destroy theyfirst make mad'-Euripides WASTELAND REVISITED Free form art practiced in the book re- view column of the sagacious Progressive: Theodore Roszak is a seeker. Like...
...Indiana -telephone 812-332-7251 The Alternative June-September 1973...
...He claimed to have slept with her in a Paris hotel...
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...A lot of athletes feel they are pressured into standing during the anthem...
...Sports should be completely separate from politics...
...Our technique is one which en- ables man to make full use of his mental ability...
...The Cambodian Gov-ernment has arrested about fifty-five astrologers who consistently have reported bad omens to Marshall Lon Nol...
...Harold Lockley, was called in to exorcise a 100-year-old ghost of the fac- tory's founder that people say haunts the place...
...Like many others in a land that has seemingly lost its soul, he wants to transcend alienation and live as a whole human being...
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...Struggle has been the history of life, but man doesn't have to struggle anymore...
...And the renowned law en- forcement agent, Eugene (Bull) Connors, died in Birmingham, Alabama...
...T~ Washington Post MYSTERIES OF THE EXOTIC ORIENT Sound counsel averred to Illinois' Gover-nor Daniel Walker by the enigmatic Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Esq...
...Anthony Russo, who is given to peddling organic food sandwiches to the defense staff and to spectators...
...I think the tactics that the Don used aren't much different from those General Motors used against Ralph Nader...
...President Nixon released a report indicating a decline in serious crime in 1972, but on the very day the report was released, James N. Allen of Washington, D.C...
...I would favor abolishing it at all sports events...
...One source of the commotion is the wife of one of the defendants, Mrs...
...The New York Times THE ELEVATION OF THE WHINE As controversy rages throughout the Republic over performance of the Star Spangled Banner at muscle extravaganzas, The New York Times interviews Mr...
...Marlon Brando AN AMERICAN FAIRY TALE An inspiring tale of the perilous stale of freedom on America's campuses apd of what some enlightened groups are doing to make America face up to herself or himself" On many campuses, students who either profess to be homosexual or are suspected of being homosexual are often referred for psychiatric counseling...
...In a way, the Mafia is the best example of capitalists we have...
...If the doors are closed, it takes a lot of the fun n-t of newspapering, wnich I've always thought should be a kind of mutual-aid society...
...Esquire The Alternative June-September 1973 CONTINUING CRISIS (continued from page 28) oppressing some of the more forward-looking me mbers of the Nixon Administration...
...McGovern) out to dinner and getting her loaded all the time in order to get her mind off it...
...the re-mainder of this exciting passage seems to have been deleted by one of the more puritanical typesetters at the Post, eds...
...This then, is the generation that does not have to continue to struggle...
...Loisel received a suspended sentence of three months in jail and a $200 fine...
...It's untidy, and it's full of history books and reference books and books of quota- tions...
...I have a strong feeling that a newspaper office should be an open-door joint where everyone can come in and shout about the latest stupidity in W,sh- ington and talk it over...
...POLITICAL ECONOMY PRACTICED HERE Another Pecksniff from America's great lounging class yowls about the dreadful system that made him a millionaire: I think (The Godfather) is about the corporate mind...
...Spokesmen for a number of homosexual groups said they found this a vicious response, rooted in what they say is an antiquated morality...
...His place will be taken by William Ruckelhaus who has been heading the President's attempts to clean up the environment...
...Detroit police have become edgy about a veritable plague of motorized bordellos, which tour through the suburbs of that municipality...
...The Washington Post THE GOD THAT FAILED Theological developments at the birth-place of the industrial revolution: When production fell at a British sweater factory because the women on the staff became frightened by hearing footsteps in the corridors, the manage- ment hit upon a solution...
...For me, it creates a political atmosphere...
...The Progressive THE NEW DEAL Sally Quinn of The Washington Post re-lates one of the more tantalizing details stuffed into Elliott Roosevelt's new memoir of family life with Franklin and Eleanor: Because of the termination of conjugal relations between the Roosevelts, Frank- lin was driven first to Lucy Mercer, who had started out as Eleanor's social secre- tary...
...He filed an "amended return...
...The Chicago Sun-Times STILL MORE MYSTERY The Chicago Sun-Times reveals what can havpen even to a strongly self-respecting professional guru after he has come into contact with America's Madison Avenue...
...e Earlier in the month U.S...
...The woman denied this, and at Loisel's trial for perjury he neglected to mention that the woman had an artificial navel as a result of an operation some years earlier...
...Finally back in the United States the editors at many leading American publishing houses are feverishly laying plans to publish entirely new American government textbooks consis- tent with the recent findings of various grand juries, Senate investigating com-mittees, Washington gossips, and other assorted researchers...
...On the last day of the month President Nixon guillotined the only men who have yet had the courage to knife Vice President Spiro T. Agnew in the back: Assistant President John D. Erlichman, H. R. Haldeman, and young John Dean III...
...The man, Andre Loisel, testified in a divorce case three years ago that the unidentified woman was having extra-marital relations...
...Missy it is revealed, had an adjoining room to Franklin's, and often the children would enter to see Missy in their...
...Even in a room where the lights were low this detail could not have gone un-noticed," one of the judges ruled...
...Steve, an organizer of the group at Yale, said he waited for a year before letting his room- mates know...
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...Sam (Roman Nose) DeStafano, the controversial bus-inessman, was the victim of an anonymous shotgun blast while puttering in his garage...
...Later in the evening he addressed the American people on the possibility of some impropriety stem-ming from the Watergate incursion and took full responsibility...
...The Indianapolis Star MEMOIRS OF A PARISIAN BEAUTY The state of jurisprudence in post-Napoleonic France: A man who didn't know that the woman he claimed to have slept with had an artificial navel was convicted of perjury today...
...while the wise old mountebank awed the solons of that forward-leaning state, as reported in the celebrated Sun-Times of Chicago: People who make budgets are nervous when there are problems in society...
...Next time you are in town just stop by his office...
...The campus groups do counseling of their own-on such things as how to break the news of one's homosexuality to roommates and parents...
...After asking the President to withdraw his name from nomination as F.B.I...
...so ennobling is the American political ex- perience...
...Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Inc...
...Listen to the numinous flutterings of the dollar bills: I have a sublime plan for all mankind...
...John Smith and a hush falls over the audience as Mr...
...Argentina issued a formal remonstrance to Brazil because the Argentine ambassador was delivered the Itaipu Dam Message by a Brazilian diplomat carelessly attired in swimming trunks...
...The archdeacon of Loughborough, the Rev...
...And while thousands of Americans were roosting in baseball parks to watch season openers, thousands of Ugandans turned out in urban centers across the count~ to watch the first public executions of the season...
...Partisan newspaper reporters have tried to drag the name of Assistant President, John Erlichman, into the Ellsberg hearings which have been following an anfractuous legal high jinks in San Francisco...
...9In other news, Pablo Picasso's heart misfired...
...And a three judge federal panel in Philadelphia has ruled that the right to buy alcohol is not a "fund-amental right" guaranteed in the U.S...
...Confronted with an offer of divorce from Eleanor when she learned the truth, and threatened with a financial cutoff by his mother and the ruination of a political career, Franklin gave up Lucy --only to find solace in the arms of another secre-tary, Marguerite "Missy" LeHand, who was with him from the time she was 20 until she died some 15 years later...
...The Miami Herald DOWN HOME METAPHYSICS The swell-guy posturing of effete snob James Reston...
...The New York Times HIGH BROWS Astonishing testimony to the sad condi- tion of racial amity in the land of the free by Mr...
...Rousseau is resurrected in a jock strap' John Smith, University of California, Los Angeles, quarter-miler: "I don't think it should be played...
...Wayne TELEVISION i,, |l , WTTV-B loom ington, Indianapo lis WPTA-Roanoke SARKES TARZIAN INC...
...9 On the foreign front Britain's Nation- al Health Service has decided to tax chastity belts...
...Whom the gods destroy theyfirst make mad'-Euripides WASTELAND REVISITED Free form art practiced in the book re- view column of the sagacious Progressive: Theodore Roszak is a seeker...
...Meanwhile, Mr...
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...I have the one piece of knowledge that can free mankind from problems and suffering...
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...My preference is not to stand...
...Brazil has denied the charges...
...was admitted to a local hospital for treatment of second-degree burns, which he suffered when a woman assaulted him with a bowl of hot spaghetti as he slept in his apartment There have been no arrests...
...Bring the whole gang and wager on how long it will take this hail fellow to call out the constabulary: I guess my office is a creative mess...
...Herschel Boon of Bean Blossom, Indiana won the Perry County Lying Contest, despite stiff competition from a national field, and George McGovern revealed something of the grandeur of politics as practiced in America when he told the distinguished interviewer, Joe Mc-Ginniss, that since the election I've got to keep taking her (Mrs...
...I thought everything was settled until a few months later," he said, "'when I dis- covered one roommate negotiated with the dean for a single room for me...
...L. Patrick Gray, lII resigned under a little gray cloud on April 27...
...Then he hung posters in his room advertising a homosexual dance and a roommate asked Steve if he belonged to the sponsoring group...
...The basis of a restful budget is no problems in society...
...MANUFACTURING ' J ,, , J',,', ' '""' ' ',,," Tuner Division Semi-Conductor Division Broadcast Equipment Division Air Trimmer Division Magnetic Tape Division In A merlca" trying to include a $2,758 "medical deduc- tion" in his 1973 tax return, based on the costs of his recent hair transplant...
...Senator William Proxmire was nabbed flagrante delicto h ere...
...Appeals Court Judge Otto Kerner, the eponym of the famed Kerner Report, was sentenced to three years in prison and fined $50,000 for bribery, perjury, conspiracy, mail fraud, and tax evasion...
...Don Corleone is just an ordinary Ameri- can business magnate who is trying to do the best he can for the group he represents and for his family...
...Smith raises a puerile whine to the level of high-toned ideology...
...James Brown, artiste: I have sold more records than Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms put together, but because of the racial problem in the United States, nobody emphasizes this...
...Director on April 5, Mr...
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